more language indonesian and explanation of last typo

The "but Islam" bit that made a sentence in the previous post unintelligible is a perfect example of another sort of error I often make when typing and that is to have two thoughts in my head at one time and write both of them partially. I was going to say that Islam does not permit images of religious persons and so I wonder how they feel about photographs taken of holy sites, I'm guessing that it is forbidden.

The language Malay of which Indonesian is a close derivation was imposed upon the peoples of Indonesia by the Dutch. When the Dutch began to allow some Indonesians to receive education, they were educated in Malay and all business and government affairs were also recorded in Malay. The unintended result of this was that elite Indonesians with an anti-colonial sentiment could now communicate with each other. The segregated schools allowed these people the time and knowledge and language to form political associations. The cities built by the Dutch allowed more and more people of similar political affinities to meet and talk.

The cities did not come about until the Colonial administration of Indonesia came under the direction of the Dutch government (roughly 1799). Before that, those Dutch who came to the archipelago were associated with the Dutch East Indies Company. That corporation fell bankrupt after 200 years in 1799. The government took over. As industrialization led to better medicines, roads and transportation, and after the opening of the Suez canal in 1869, more and more Dutch began to settle in Indonesia and thus, cities were built. Prior to this the Dutch who came over were strictly men and these men made the company of many local women, often marrying them. There was not a strict racial hierarchy. As it became easier to settle here, women came from Holland and with them children and the imposition of a racially segregated society. It was no longer acceptable for Dutch men to interact with the locals. The women brought not only racism but also were vital to the implementation of the "Ethical Policy", variations of this were mouthed by the French in Vietnam (the civilizing mission or mission civilisatrice) or by the English notion of a White Man's Burdern. In essence, European colonizers began to speak about their duty to lift up and civilize the colonized. That meant schools and other forms of welfare like immunization. These things were never well funded but they did help to assuage liberal guilt over the moral transgressions inherent in taking another land's wealth--for an American version, think Manifest Destiny or Operation Enduring Freedom.

Nevertheless while the original President and Vice President of Indonesia (Soekarno and Hatta, respectively) were products of these schools and the resulting political parties, they never amounted to much until the Japanese kicked the Dutch out and took the islands for themselves. They also kicked the Brits out of Malaysia and Singapore. Churchill gave so little credit to Japanese that his forces in these places were very undersupplied and unprepared. Those left to defend Singapore found out later that their maps were not of "The City of Lions" but of the the Isle of Wight. Here endith the lesson.